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-wow LAWS OF FLORIDA 2207 will at once become due and payable and said lien subject to fore- closure, which notice shall be given to the property owner in the same manner as the notice hereinbefore provided for the notice of the meeting of the City Council as an equalizing Board to hear com- plaints thereon. Section 76. Each annual instalment p,.-ovided for herein of the consolidated and adjusted assessments shall be paid at the time or times specified in an ordinance of the City Council relative thereto, with interest upon all deferred payments, until the entire amount of said assessment has been paid, and upon the failure of any prop- erty owner to pay any annual instalment due, or any part thereof, or any annual interest upon deferred payments, the City Council of the City of Vero Beach shall cause to be brought the necessary legal proceedings by a bill in chancery to enforce payment thereof, with all accrued interest, together with all legal costs incurred, including a reasonable solicitor's fee, to be assessed as a part of the costs; and in the event of default in the payment of any instalment of an assessment or any accrued interest on said assessment, the whole assessment with interest thereon shall immediately become due and payable and subject to foreclosure. In the foreclosure of any spe- cial assessment service of process against unknown or non-resident defendants may be had by publication as now provided by law in other chancery suits. The foreclosure proceedings shall be pros- ecuted to a sale and conveyance of the property involved in said proceedings as now provided by law in suits to foreclose mortgages. Section 77. If at any time during the life of consolidated and adjusted assessments as herein provided all special assessment bonds which were issued to cover the local improvements for which said assessments were made shall have been paid, any balance in the assessment funding account, or'any uncollected assessments, shall be applied to retiring outstanding refunding bonds which were issued in lieu of special assessment bonds maturing and not otherwise paid. Section 78. The City Council of said City is also authorized to release all improvement liens which have been recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Lucie or Indian River Counties at the time of the passage of this Act for the purpose of executing new liens in accordance with the consolidated and ad- justed plan of assessments as provided for by this Act. Section 79. The City Council shall have power by ordinance to prescribe the width, location, grade and materials of which streets and sidewalks shall be constructed.